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the colgate maroon colgate university hamilton new york september 16 1975 show me the way to go home by john ka tz how does it feel to be all alone with no direction home like a complete unknown like a rolling stone bob dylan although hamilton does not offer the variety in housing of new york city colgate students have always been assured of finding a place to live here this year however both university housing and off-campus facilities are packed solid students who arrived weeks before the term began have had great difficulty finding openings there are five freshmen in some of the four person rooms on the hill and transfer students have been lodged in merrill house and in the guestrooms and live-in facilities of shepardson and bryant tents have even been pitched between phi gamm and burch apartments the housing squeeze has taken most students by surprise but the administration was aware of the problems at least two months ago i have known about it ever since it was projected in august stated associate dean of students donald miller miller felt that the shortage of living space came about for a number of reasons including the arrival of thirty more freshmen than anticipated an extremely iow summer dropout rate and an unexpectedly large number of transfer students a large part of the trouble he sÂ«Â»rteh Â«Â« inpivticsil one ot the most difficult things to do is to is to find the right sort of openings we may get spots on an all-male floor but that doesn't help the women at all that's a major problem now female housing miller explained he saw forced doubling up and creating new spaces as ways of rectifying the situation student reaction to the squeeze has been calm said miller i haven't had any complaints yet but i think pat mclnerney business coordinator for residential life and allen schwab assistant dean for residential life have it hasn't gotten to that point yet 1 bet it will though it's sort of a compliment to colgate and it makes the financial people happy but it makes things very hard on the housing staff we've had absolutely no complaints from freshmen asserted assistant dean for freshmen students julie collier adams when they got here on sunday i thought that we'd get complaints from the people who are living five in the four-space rooms but the parents just said i wouldn't live here but my daughter loves it the biggest problem has been the housing of transfer students we ended up having to put 19 men in phi tau and five in sigma chi mclnerney said friday we finally got the last twelve people out of merrill house we have three women in what are lmiallv mate snares some transfers are happy many arc not they mostly wanted to be on campus in university housing i'm not sure how it got so crowded it just happened she added it happened to a lot of colgate students as well as transfers but they wound up finding places in town it's easier for them to do as of this morning friday we have five transfer women in guest housing two in bryan two in freshmen halls and three in shepardson schwab noted the only reason we didn't get into real trouble was because we were able to place transfer men in the fraternities this wasn't supposed to happen with year-round operation he maintained spring and summer enrollments were supposed to have offset the numbers here in the fall something happened this year which didn't happen the other two years schwab stated that the trouble began when the class of 72 ran larger than plan and continued as the class advanced the fact that this year's class was also large and filled spaces in bryan which are traditionally reserved for transfers complicated matters the timetable of the housing staff was thrown off by the necessity of placing the freshmen cover by hak continued on page nine

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the colgate maroon colgate university hamilton new york september 16 1975 show me the way to go home by john ka tz how does it feel to be all alone with no direction home like a complete unknown like a rolling stone bob dylan although hamilton does not offer the variety in housing of new york city colgate students have always been assured of finding a place to live here this year however both university housing and off-campus facilities are packed solid students who arrived weeks before the term began have had great difficulty finding openings there are five freshmen in some of the four person rooms on the hill and transfer students have been lodged in merrill house and in the guestrooms and live-in facilities of shepardson and bryant tents have even been pitched between phi gamm and burch apartments the housing squeeze has taken most students by surprise but the administration was aware of the problems at least two months ago i have known about it ever since it was projected in august stated associate dean of students donald miller miller felt that the shortage of living space came about for a number of reasons including the arrival of thirty more freshmen than anticipated an extremely iow summer dropout rate and an unexpectedly large number of transfer students a large part of the trouble he sÂ«Â»rteh Â«Â« inpivticsil one ot the most difficult things to do is to is to find the right sort of openings we may get spots on an all-male floor but that doesn't help the women at all that's a major problem now female housing miller explained he saw forced doubling up and creating new spaces as ways of rectifying the situation student reaction to the squeeze has been calm said miller i haven't had any complaints yet but i think pat mclnerney business coordinator for residential life and allen schwab assistant dean for residential life have it hasn't gotten to that point yet 1 bet it will though it's sort of a compliment to colgate and it makes the financial people happy but it makes things very hard on the housing staff we've had absolutely no complaints from freshmen asserted assistant dean for freshmen students julie collier adams when they got here on sunday i thought that we'd get complaints from the people who are living five in the four-space rooms but the parents just said i wouldn't live here but my daughter loves it the biggest problem has been the housing of transfer students we ended up having to put 19 men in phi tau and five in sigma chi mclnerney said friday we finally got the last twelve people out of merrill house we have three women in what are lmiallv mate snares some transfers are happy many arc not they mostly wanted to be on campus in university housing i'm not sure how it got so crowded it just happened she added it happened to a lot of colgate students as well as transfers but they wound up finding places in town it's easier for them to do as of this morning friday we have five transfer women in guest housing two in bryan two in freshmen halls and three in shepardson schwab noted the only reason we didn't get into real trouble was because we were able to place transfer men in the fraternities this wasn't supposed to happen with year-round operation he maintained spring and summer enrollments were supposed to have offset the numbers here in the fall something happened this year which didn't happen the other two years schwab stated that the trouble began when the class of 72 ran larger than plan and continued as the class advanced the fact that this year's class was also large and filled spaces in bryan which are traditionally reserved for transfers complicated matters the timetable of the housing staff was thrown off by the necessity of placing the freshmen cover by hak continued on page nine